School Sentence Scramble w/ Prepositions & Determiners
by English with Imagination © 2025
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Price: $3.25 USD
Subjects: ela,englishSecondLanguage,eslGrammar,elaLanguageGrammar,elaLanguage,conventionsOfStandardEnglish,backToSchool
Grades: 1,2,3,4,5
Description
Your English learners will practice prepositions of place and the determiners "some" and "any" with this fun grammar game with a school theme. On each randomly presented slide, the students will form a sentence to describe a photo of school life. Each sentence contains six or seven word tiles that follow a consistent pattern: a "there is" / "there are" clause followed by a prepositional phrase. Students will move the tiles to form simple declarative, interrogative, and negative sentences. In the process, they'll review the following prepositions of place: above, behind, below, in, in front of, inside, next to, on, and under. The sentences are illustrated with vibrant color photography to support reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. The cheerful photos illustrate the following vocabulary: backpack, bird, board, book, bookcase, bowl, box, cage, children, clock, comic, computer, crayon, desk, door, fish, flag, game, letter, library, message, notebook, number, pen, pencil, phone, picture, playground, ruler, school, scissors, shelves, snack, story, and table. I regularly use digital sentence scrambles to review grammar concepts with my students. They enjoy seeing the pictures, moving the word tiles, and getting instant feedback. I find that these activities can be a great bridge between receptive and productive language use. The sentence scramble gives them the structured experience that they need to confidently use the language in conversation.
Acknowledgements
Copyright © Lauren Hamilton Sáez, English with Imagination, 2025. Images licensed from Deposit Photos, Alamy, and Canva.